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He has shared our lives for 20 000 years. Along the way, he has helped us find food, kept our livestock, protected us from our enemies, guided us in extreme conditions, and saved us from peril.
Now, he comforts us, relieving loneliness and helping us cope with old age. He has become our infallible ally. How did dogs come about? How did these formidable creatures take such prominence in our lives? How did we learn to cooperate with their unique talents, and what are the incredible things that they do for us today?
Here are the astounding adventures of some of those remarkable animals, and the exploits that make them heroes amongst men. From wolf to pet, from predator to loyal friend, we will travel the world to recount how the dog became: MAN’S FIRST FRIEND.
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They have shared our lives for 20 000 years. Along the way, they have helped us find food, kept our livestock, protected us from our enemies, guided us in extreme conditions, and saved us from peril. From wolf to pet, from predator to loyal friend, we will travel the world to recount how the dog became: MAN'S FIRST FRIEND.
Dogs migration to Africa is never true.
Dogs migration to Africa is never true.
This is one of the Best documentaries in many years. Thank you.❤
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20:00 are you kidding me? Where's your evidence that they were so important for plant agriculture? Cats were far more useful in that capacity. Dogs were primarily used for hunting assistance.
I am a Gulf War veteran, when it comes to dogs and kids I'm still a little boy in my heart, a warrior in my body and soul. So many times during this I was overwhelmed with feelings and losing my composure, and I look at my dog Don Quixote and his eyes are welling up with tears as well... dogs are the best! My dog is my emotional support dog, he's my best friend, and he is the smartest dog I have ever seen!❤
i like dog quixote
I’m currently watching this with my husky as well. Such amazing dogs
Our dog is always the best! We just belong together
@drd6893 they are four legged Angels...
@@jerrydonquixote5927thanks for your service. And dogs are awesome ❤
im a grown up man and was crying all tears out at the end, so heartwarming and touching
Yh poor dogs 😢
Me too. I’m a grown woman and was crying and so amazed. Best documentary I’ve ever seen. 🐾
Same
That’s ok. Bc grown up or not, its ok to cry❤
Respect
My Malinois has been my best friend since day one, the bond is almost telepathic. He’s an amazing boy. Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and non of them are wrong.
Such an amazing breed. I've mostly owned terriers my entire adult life, but I adopted a Mali a couple of years ago. Such an amazing boy. He was at the end of his lifecycle, but he left and indelible mark on my heart. He was such a good boi.
We don't deserve dogs. At 34 I've had the best 3 dogs in the world. A boxer, English springer and now a staffy cross bully.
@@WilliamFairfield-qq2tqI wholeheartedly agree
@@nyteshayde1197Bless you for adopting a senior dog❤ I'm sure you gave him the best life during his later years........
Malinois are great as long as you don't want a couch potato. They're highly driven. That's why the military uses them. They want to punch the clock and get to work.
Dogs were with us as scouts on the battlefield and are just as worthy of being honoured as veterans as I am.
Are you?
Is there some temple where I can go to worship you?
Thank you for your service our little canine friend.... Now who's a good boy!!! @@squarerootof2
How many humans did you kill ?
Could not agree more.
I remember a story about two dogs during Hurricane Sandy. One was injured, his buddy left, alerted some random rescue crew, they followed the dog on instinct and rescued both of them. Dogs are incredible with their intelligence, observation, resourcefulness, and trust.
I saw one a few days ago where people were not allowed to go to their home due to forest fires, the family feared the worse thinking their dogs would have died but when they were eventually allowed back and they went to see the damage all 3 dogs were laying together patiently waiting for their owners 😊
Rev 4:11
@@HearTruth Amen! For those who do not have the good book/Bible Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.
@@diniathome7930 Rev 4:11 Col 1:16-20 .... *For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth,* visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: *all things were created by him, and for him:*
What a wonderful Dogumentary!!! crying tears of love and joy and giving extra hugs and kisses to my furbabies tonight.....thank you!!
Same here
Dogumentary? Good one. 😂
I am 65 yrs old and have always had at least one dog for all those years. I can honestly say my dogs have been better to me and closer to me than any human beyond compare.
Imagine being the first person to feed and pet a dog. Knowing you made a friend for life. Something that will do anything for you.
Someone* 😊
No, not knowing at first the gift you just received.
My sister in my room and I tried to hold my tears and wiping it quietly. My throat is in pain and this is an emotional video for me. I love dogs and animals in general. Wish all of them be treated well and nicely, be accepted and well fed.
I feel you. Your statemenht finally turned loose my tears. My beautiful German Shephard was only twp years old when she was poisoned and died, I still miss her love and affection and it has been many years.
@@rknhrse that is just soooooo sad :( monsters will have their karma in time. Take care!
my dad on his way to sell our dogs as foods:
noooooooo😰@@parlsuk
Definitely mans best friend,doubt id be here now if not for my dogs...unfortunately we aren't always their best friends.Sad because there is probably no other animal on the planet that genuinely wants to be our friend,its a privilege to have that sort of relationship with another species,not enough of us understand and appreciate that !! Great doco guys :)
Horses are the same, especially draft horses, most people seem to have forgotten that in the last five or seven decades (even among those who work with horses). EDIT: if you're interested in learning more about it, there's a book called "Farewell to the Horse: A Cultural History" by Ulrich Raulff. Without horses we wouldn't have been able to travel, grow food, transport things, mine, fight, power machines, the list just goes on - and they genuiely want to help us, their presence literally heals us, they really are like big puppies!
What about cats? They may not work for us, but they have a natural affinity for human companionship and love which is reciprocal.. they are every bit as loving as dogs are to humans and many people consider them as integral as family in human life.
Dogs just want to be with you.
dogs dont wnat to be your friend they want your food. how can you not tell the difference
Only Jesus saves not animals!
This documentary gave me ALL the feels! I simply LOVED it. Thank you to all those that made it possible.
glad you loved it and we will certainly pass on your comment to the makers 😀
@@FreeDocumentaryNature Special thanks to Primitive Woman who befriended the first wolf, she was great!
Glad to know I’m not the only person who suddenly started crying near the end. It kind of caught me off guard. I love dogs so much. I am just so grateful for them. I miss my dog so much.
Please get another! God bless you!
@@johnharris7353 I would love to. Only problem is......... My last dog was the PERFECT dog but I have no clue what breed he was. He was the only dog of his kind I have ever seen. 😫
@@J-Rod91 While that may be true, perfection is the killer of progress and joy. Preference, okay that's cool, but my guess is that you'll find room in your heart for your next canine companion. I was in your shoes once. Best wishes.
Dogs will always be a man’s best friend, loyal trustworthy defender security a barrel of laughs and also sadness when they pass on
Not loyal, thats why you have to fence them in. Not trustworthy look at all the attacks. Laughs? get over it
Yeah. That last part really sucks. I've tried to think about how my canine companions deaths teach me the entire spectrum of love, even the pain part.
They are gifts, and they should be treated as such. We have to enjoy our gifts while they are with us and pay them back all the love and joy.
@@theapocalex sounds like you never had a dog, and I pity you
@@chriscuts7029no response? Ok.
The best documentary ever. Im 50 years old man and I cried Watched it 50 times at least ❤❤
Dogs are everything and we belong together ❤ That unconditional love is real.
it was all by accident; but well worth it
@@ChickenMcThiccken all because they wanted to be with us*
Sitting home with a broken hand for months with just my Border Collie I stumbled across this documentary and loved watching it momentarily looking at my loving dog looking back at me.. Dogs really are man's best friend.
I lost my 16 y/o rescue Gorden, who looked a lot like White Socks the other day. This documentary makes me happy and made the sadness a bit less bitter. Thank you for this documentary.
I’m happy this documentary brought you a bit of solace. Thank YOU and all good wishes and good things for you
I'm sorry for your loss 😢 I lost my dog of 15 years in February 💔
Growing up, my best friend was my dog. I was bullied and didn't have many friends, but I had him and my 2 cats. The dogs name is Rascal, and it really describes his personality. He was smart and sweet, but he'd do things like try to take the cats treats after he finished him and it didn't matter that the cat already had the treat in it's mouth. I remember seeing him one time with the poor cats entire head in his mouth as he tried to lick the treat out of his mouth. Obviously I wasn't okay with him trying at all so I'd stop him. I loved my cats too... 🐈 He would do anything to protect me even though at 1 foot tall he was even short for his bread. He was a Jack Russle, a breed make for hunting fox. He cased deer and other dogs off of the cottage property, well to our road, but we rarely did things on the other side and it was, and still is all dense woods. I know that he would fight a beer or moose to protect me. He'll, I'd do the same for him. I loved him so much and often think of him even though it's been almost a decade and a half since he passed. The good thing is that he lived a long, 20 year life being told and shown every day that he was loved. He had a happy life, and that's what matters.
This documentary is on another level, and I have seen more then a few very very good ones in my time on this earth. The authenticity, the cinematography, story development, and many other components of truly remarkable work of art are here, multiplied by factor of many. If there is an Oscar for this kind of movies, this one should get at least 3. And that is all before I even mention the dogs.... To the ladies and gents that made this, I salute you. Thank you.
On another level😂 did you catch the part in the beginning about there only being 1 million dogs on earth? Lmao I think they underestimate that figure 😂
@@Flying_Fetus billion.. not million
This was a lovely documentary! We used to have a yorkshire terrier named Daisy, but had to put her down three years ago, at the age of 14, due to late-stage bone cancer in her back paws. It was discovered too late and we didn't want her to suffer anymore. She was so energetic and friendly to everyone, always having a toy prepared behind every corner at home, ready to play, even at an old age. It was very painful to see her not be able to walk and play anymore, refuse to eat or drink because of constant pain and just lie down and watch us with a sad, surrendered look, nearing the end of her life. A few months after that I had to move away from my parents, for personal reasons. Now I live alone in a small, half-empty, cold flat and suffer greatly from loneliness, anxiety and depression. I wish to be able to afford having a dog again one day, but with the cost of living being so high, me only being able to work part-time due to disability and my shift schedule often changing on a day-to-day basis, I fear it will remain just a dream for the rest of my life.
Try adopting one from a pound mate, hope you get one 👍🏻
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I so understand. They are like our child and there’s a cost to having one, not to mention expensive vet cost. Isn’t sad our best friends can be out of our reach due to cost of living. 😢
@@user-mq2kt1kx1c Amen.
They don't really help us "ENJOY" sickness or lonelyness, but the definitely help us a great deal get through it. If people would only find enough compassion to learn about, understand, and get to know dogs, there would be allot less negelect and abuse. I have had dogs all my life and loved, cherished, played with, and gave them all good lives. I have spared no expence towards their health. We get sooooo much from a lovable and loyal dog and that is exactally what they are. Unconditional love and loyality you wou't find in a human. They are only with us for a short part of our life, but "WE ARE THEIR WHOLE LIFE"!!!!
dogs are truly a gift from 'above' or wherever you wanna say a higher power exists. best creatures to ever grace this unique planet. they can teach humans a thing or two about loyalty and respect, use them as an example of how to treat the people you love and also how to defend yourself against those who try to do you wrong. all dogs go to heaven, beautiful animals.
Dogs ARE the higher power. Do you not believe in doG?
God is dog spelled backwards.
Those final words and the last examples of human-dog-friendship were touching ... We still can learn a thing or 2 from our best friend on the matter of friendship, it seems. Stunning documentary, all the dogs in it are beautiful in their own specific way.
At the beginning, when we see the wolves and they come up to the humans and take the carcass, that is one awesome piece of film work. How they got those shots must have been next to impossible.
This is the best thing I have watched in a long time, really heartwarming and touching. Thank you.
Best 1 1/2hrs that I have spent in a long time. I have had dogs for over 50 yrs, but I learned more in this film than I ever knew.
Love it, "Wolf domesticated man"!😊
Just consider how yeast has manipulated humans into becoming brewers and bakers.. .(Just kidding, although yeast won't go extinct as long as humans exist).
That has to be one of the best documentaries on dogs I have watched, it had me grinning from ear to ear. Ty.
Its amazing how they filmed this documentary. Unbelievable how the animals seemed like they were acting.
We wouldn't be where what we are today without dogs, we don't deserve them but we have them so we must care and cherish them as much as we can
This brought tesrs to me eyes. Im epileptic PTSD major depressive. The unconditional love is so true. I saved a dog locked in cage for 4 years. Was a monster now my best friend. Follow me everywhere i go and almost died fighting a viciously dog that came into my house in Phillipines 5 ft from me my daughter and wife. She fought and bled. The other dog went and killed over 12 puppies and older dogs. Bit there heads off i cant get those memories away. Babies with no heads. When owner got home he shot his dog in the head..here in Phillipines i see many sick weak dying dogs but keep on going. And i think to myself if they can so can i.i feed local dogs but there afraid of people but when i back up they eat. .
good I think? That’s a pretty gruesome story with the headless dogs but do carry on helping homeless dogs and i wish you all the best.
Dogs equal unconditional love.
Dogs are the best we dont deserve them, they are the BEST ANIMAL!
I love dogs so much, man. My girl died a couple years ago. She lived nearly 17 years. She had old dog symdrome & i had to rush her to the 24/7 vet numerous times in her last year. I still mourn her everyday. Love & miss you, Bella.
They're all good boys and girls. Each and every one of them.
What about dogs guarding auschwitz
I loved my ex's dog almost more more than her. A fantastic dog! Docile, gentle, loyal, super smart and my best buddy!
Story of my life felt that!
We often don't deserve dogs. I have had a dog my entire life. There will never be a time that I don't have a dog. Each one has brought love and humor to my life. I'm a terrier fan. They are some of the funniest little dogs ever. I have two fox terriers and they are so dang funny. They're smart, funny, fearless, brave, and feisty. I love them to pieces.
I wanna get something huge, but child friendly but known for protection… and not too expensive!!! Any ideas???
@@bryandungee1029 Doberman. Hands down. If you want a dog that is of good stock, they're going to be expensive but worth it. Look for heritage breeders. They breed for trait before looks.
Fantastic documentary that will force you through the staircase of emotions.....and acceptance....five stars
Dogs are angels with fur!
Watching this as my 4 month old puppy is driving me CRAZY🤣 I'm having a rough morning and she's totally taking advantage of it😂 That aside,,I truly believe that humans and dogs have a special,unique, connection. We've walked parallel paths together for thousands of years. I have 2 pits and a dobie. We live alone,just me and my dogs(and chickens,and cats lol). I can honestly say I like my dogs better than I do most people~they're smarter,have more common sense, read my emotions(and my mood)better,and love me unconditionally~hard to say that about most humans~!! I've always shared my life with dogs and can't imagine a life without them.......
You sound just like me 😮 my dogs both passed away one in February 13, 24 he was 16. My other 3 years ago she was 18. So I did a thing 2 weeks ago and rescued a puppy. I ask my 63 year old self WTH was I thinking 😅😅😅 I needed her and she needed me ❤ I refuse to go out as just a cat lady with chickens 😊
In America its getting tougher to rescue dogs who’ve been abandoned. Vetting is very expensive just to get them checked out. I was a kennel manager for 4 years and got laid off due to increased costs for the business. I was let go because the owner wanted to save money. I was a great employee and had built many solid relationships with the clientele. It’s heartbreaking to see their health decline and the immense costs associated with extending their lives. Ive lost much faith in that industry because of this. I took on a pitbull lab mix who had been living at another kennel for year. He cant be around other dogs so he has been a challenge but I have the knowledge and training to keep him and others safe. He had a hard life on the streets and nobody would take the effort to adopt him. He’s loyal and obedient to me at all times and quite healthy. Very food motivated but that also includes some resource aggression so I have to take precautions when hes around other dogs. Training has helped but its a daily process. He has even nipped me a couple times when i roll over on him in my sleep by accident or steal the blanket back 😅.
you’re a good person. the animals are lucky you’re around. And yes, vet costs in the US are crazy: my sister who lives in Oak Harbor, WA always tells me what she pays for her cat - hundreds of dollars. I pay about $50 per visit to a vet here in Vienna. That’s just crazy. Consumer items are dirt cheap yet the things that really count are expensive. Anyways, wish you good things. And your dog friend.
@@FreeDocumentaryNature Just getting my Great Dane neutered was $800. It's frankly insane how expensive even the most basic of veterinary care - spay, neuter, microchip, and immunizations - has become. It has made getting pet health insurance a prudent investment. More private insurance companies to deal with? Yayyyyy 🙃🫠 Adopting a dog and tending to their most basic of needs should not be as prohibitively expensive as it is. Even 35 lbs (roughly 15 kg) bags of decent dry kibble are like $70-80 now! The Hill's Science Diet Large Breed Adult Chicken and Barley dry kibble I get for my Great Dane is $85 for a 35 lbs bag! And providing dogs (especially short life span dogs with frequent health issues such as Great Danes) with quality food is imperative to giving them the best chance at a long and healthy life. Not counting water, a dog's food is the one variable in their life that rarely, if ever, changes over the course of their life and which they require and consume multiple times every single day. Food and going on walks are probably THE two biggest factors that ultimately determine a dog's health (generally speaking of course). Perhaps using my own experience is a bit biased considering the fact that my male Great Dane eats 10-12 cups of kibble each day depending on how his weight is looking, but even so, it costs me just over $200/month to feed him Hill's Science Diet. I don't care how big of a dog I have - his food expenses should not be bigger than mine are, but yet, here we are. Who am I kidding, though? It's still worth it in order to have my best friend in my life - I love my dog with my whole heart.
Thank you for this fantastic video. In all my experience with canine behavior and training, I think this is the most accurate documentary that truly captures what dogs are and how to communicate with them. Masterfully done!
I love dogs so much that I can't live without dogs.
I love this documentary. It's the best I've seen in a long time. I love dogs and this made me appreciate my own even more.
Thanks for this video. Dogs always are our best friends, loyal, give us unconditional love.
What an amazing piece. Facts, insight, and emotion are so hard to weave together as well as this amazing documentary.
Here at The StayOnTop Hacienda, I was raised as part of a pack of German Shepherds/Bull Mastiff mix. Now that I'm grown and a Father, we're raising Our 3 year old son as part of the same pack, just their children. I learned so much from the pack and in the end, I was the leader. My son at 3 is already the pack leader of 10, and watching this, just makes me feel happy. Dogs mean so much to me, my entire life and the future of my son's life.
Thank you. Dogs are our love and joy.
Wow, what a great documentary. Very informative and educational but even more heartwarming. I even feel like I better understand my relationship with my dog.
I wish you'd do a video on the pain that acccompanies the loss of a dog and the effects it has had on humanity.
I cried, I love the dog that always accompanies me, he choses to be by my side day and night and he waits for me outside my house or in the neighborhood, he just always has a wide smile and a sparkle in his eyes, even when he was in the line between life and death he kept moving his little tail, he trusted in me when was wounded covert in blood, he came to me and Im so thankful that he survived, that I was abled to cure his injury. Love you Blanquito, you are the best dog and Im yours by heart
Dogs are AMAZING creatures. I would have 10 if i could afford them. So brilliant and loyal. I love dogs more than some humans. (Most)
Wonderful video. Well done and informative. Dogs are truly man's best friend. The one😢 story I wish you would have featured was the Husky teams who ran 1000 miles through a blizzard to a town in Alaska that was in dire need of mediine for an outbreak of diphtheria(I believe). People were dying wth no hope of relief from the air or roads. It was sled dogs, (and their mushers), who running full tilt through abominable conditions saved them in the end.❤❤❤🐺🐾 P.S.- I maybe biased of course because I have a Siberian Husky. 😂
Just when they showed the Huskies I was wanting them to go into it about those dogs. I have a husky, even though he's not a working dog like that, he is the most amazing intelligent dog I've ever seen!
@@jerrydonquixote5927My Husky isn't a working sled dogs either but she did get a wonderful tracking device for her collar for Christmas!😂 She tends to take herself on walks when we're not looking so now my phone notifies me when she leaves. 😅❤❤🐾
Hi
I met a Husky here in West Texas when I moved here. Smart. Smart Dog, funny to he was a talker. I swear that dog could smell or hear rattlesnakes . ❤ R.I.P. Balto
,,,,,I had to watch this again today,,,,,It warms my cold heart...........I will watch this many times to come.........
that’s the best praise for the documentary: repeat viewing. Glad you love it too
Such a magical connection we have with dogs. I feel privileged to share sm love with them. A result of Thousands of years of cultivating this connection!!! Amazing
OK. This documentary has a bunch of problems others have already noted so I will point out some fun ones from the livestock guardian segment. 1. Calling a billy goat a ram. 2. Using only one dog to guard the flock. This will end badly and isn´t particularly effective. You need multiple dogs for this. 3. Wolves can`t bark? Where did they get that idea from? There is plenty of good footage of wolves barking. Dogs bark more often and have more nuance to their barks but that doesn`t mean it`s something super special that happened post domestication.
The overuse of sound effects in this video is driving me insane. Dogs send signals to other dogs AND humans all time time, but it's mostly body language, or subtle things like eye contact, panting or silent yawning. Growls or yelps if there is conflict, yep, okay fine true enough, but even then it is almost always preceded by body language cues. Most dogs rarely make whining noises, but it seems like the editors of this video felt compelled to insert some sort of noise every time there was a dog onscreen interacting with a human.
Don't know anything about the other stuff but wolf pups bark and then when they're adults, they howl. There's a scientific term for the phenomenon where in some ways, dogs don't teach full maturity like their wolf ancestors. The only way I know of is that they can still bark like pups their whole lives. Wolves don't.
I’m not really dogs but this documentary gripped me from the first 30 seconds and only got better. Right through to the end infact. To the point where I’d like a dog on day. Excellent work to everyone on the production team and of course thank you for uploading this to KZhead for free ❤️
เป็นภาพที่สวยมากเลยลูกหมา ดูแล้วมีความสุขทางใจสบายตา❤🎉
We really don't deserve them. If it wasn't cruel to keep one as a single guy who's at work most of the waking hours of most days, I'd always have one by my side.
Dogs are the smartes with understanding and expressive eyes, the only negative is that they cannot speak human language.Thanks for excellent film.
Yeah it'd be cool if they could speak our language lol, but they speak to us in other ways that we can understand and vice versa. I believe the only negative thing about them is that they only bless us with their presence for a short life compared to ours😢
Mankind owes a great debt of gratitude to dog. What a special thing we were given in them.
What a brilliant documentary! Made me think of how complex and unique our symbiosis is and how our societies failed in evolving a set of appropriate protections for them - who are some of the most vulnerable among us.
Love the comments. The love of Dogs has been empirically proven. We're almost symbiotic at this point. Amazing mutations in such a short period of time. Imagine dogs a million years from now.🐕
The information provided about the different breeds from their respective origin countries was impressive. Excellent work!
Literally earlier today I was like I really wanna find a dog documentary about their history and wow!
😀 Ha. I love when that happens!
Welcome to the future. Algos reading your mind.
What an incredible documentary. I am utterly moved by this production, and I feel even luckier now than I already had for having my dog in my life.
Interesting/informative/entertaining. Excellent photography job/reenactments enabling viewers to better understand what the orator is describing. 😉. Viewing this presentation from the comfort of my computer room. Along the " Space Coast "🚀of Florida 🐊🐊🐊 ( 2-2-24).
I saw some stats the other day. Apparently, around 30,000 people are killed annually by dogs. Much more than fall victim to big wild cats, crocodiles or bears.
What an amazing documentary. The individual story concept was such a better technique than simply giving us a set of cold facts. Very heartwarming as well.
I liked this doc so much, it showed the development of the relationship as a sort of dance between two species (with many supporting species in the story), instead of the vulgar and simplistic idea that dogs are something that humans "did" to wolves. I've always been sure that the domestication was a result of mutual values and goals gradually overcoming the mutual distrust evident in the fairy tales and lupine shyness. Our agriculture and animal husbandry would surely not have got far without this development, no city states, no empires.... Oh yes I was weeping too towards the end. Marvellous, informative and inspiring
- The more i know people, the more i like my dogs -. An 18 year old Husky- Chow Chow mix. And a 2 year - District Special- from a TIKO...
I'm the same, I'd rather be with my dogs than other people... they talk lol , my dogs say more to me with their silence 😊
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A truly extraordinary experience. Even though I have studied ecology I learned a tremendous amount. This was well done, well paced, very pleasant & highly informative. I have enjoyed a few good dogs. I think now I know why. Thank you
Tear jerker ending, how great they are
i was in awe, in amaze, and lastly in tears
A good documentary i hug my dog while watching.
I love everything about this documentary.
Lovely documentary. ❤
5 minutes in and I am already totally hooked. What a great docu.
I'm more of a cat lover, but dogs really ARE 'Man's best friend ' . You just have to share a decent amount of food , that They Often help you catch . Treat them with some real decency and love . They Are super loyal , and they Will Save your life .
What an amazing documentary well done 👏
My father was US Army infantry 22 years, ww2,Korea, and Vietnam, he always kept a dog, and credits dogs for saving his life and countless others, the enemy ate different food, the dogs could smell it, stopped many spies in camp! plus they could smell and hear at greater distances than humans and will sound the alarm! Soldiers lose some of their hearing and smell from firing weapons all the time! God bless dogs 🐕 🙏🏻 ❤️
I am a zoology grad, my main interest has been canines. I lived where wolves are common. I read a scientific paper from a Biologist discussing "Domestication" in animals, based on a Soviet scientist Bersyave (sic) I think. He domesticated Fox from the fox skin farms in the 50's in Russia. He found that when domesticated, foxes exhibited changes in coat and physical size and structure. The brain lost 3% of volume as well. Interesting to the paper's authour, as he noted that when dogs were domesticated, humans were known as CroMagnon. They had 3% larger brain size than modern Homo Sapien sapien. Dogs also have 3% less brain volume than wolves. The authour's conclusion was that Humans-Canines domestication is a case study in Co-Domestication. While Humans domesticated dogs, dogs domesticated us.
"I got terriers, scent hounds, pointers, retrievers; and as I continue, you know they're getting sweeter"
hence the saying a mans BEST FRIEND.. excellent documentary
More comfort, less freedom. A choice we humans make daily.
"They kept us warm at night." The band 3 Dog Night was named for the solution to a very cold evening. In my family, we say that Dog is God spelled backwards. They won't pretend that they love you, and then leave you for someone else. They show us unconditional love, even if we hurt them.
This was a great video, I have 2 dogs, other than my 4 kids they're my best wee pals
I sure wish the people of Idaho in Montana and Wyoming and Wisconsin and Minnesota gave a s*** about wolves and stopped hunting and killing them for sport. Garrison keillor once said wolves look an awful lot like dogs, and people sure do love their dogs.
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We do but the majority does not. Wolf's coywolfs and coyotes are next level amazing animals and if I lose some livestock to them it's just a tax to the landlords . It's generally the implants and urban cowboys more hat than livestock . And tourists from the south and east Are the ones who slaughter these animals 90% of my state are all about are wild animals and nature we have some of the strictest wildlife laws and interstate compacts laws
Best I can say is that untamed wolves are not man’s best friend, as the dominant species we should show them respect where we can but as with humans there are always a few that will be stubborn to the end, even at the cost of their own lives. They want an easy meal without working for it, we shouldn’t allow that in an able bodied human nor wolf alike lest they become accustomed to it. I know that sounds harsh and I do love dogs and wolves alike but there’s a reality to be faced here, wolves and humans are competitors only dogs are man’s best friend.
@@InimitaPaul There is no such thing as a tamed wolf.
@@mandyinseattle A tamed wolf is a dog.
Thank you,scary lady, for what you set into motion. ❤️
It's amazing how we start equally and we evolved in being so smart that we can go in space,on the moon,in the ocean, we can travel everywhere in a matter of hours and we have the power to absolutely destroy anyone on this planet 😮
Mind - blowing documentary
My dog help-desk me in Covid. He is my Best friend. Not ashamed tô Tell this. I can Telles tô anyone clearly.😊
this is a perfect documentary! Amazing, I love this so much!
I keep struggling to rediscover this specific documentary on dogs just so I can rewatch the intro. *This comment is for my own record:* It's this dog documentary with the awesome intro, not any of the other ones!!
the fact that the early steppe people in the beginning are speaking muffled Hungarian is really funny to me, as a Hungarian...just obscure enough for the average watcher to not notice, even though the language probably developed way later
This first part isn’t science it’s the conjecture of the writer.
Yes, he was suggesting that we now know that it didn't start with people raising abandoned wolf puppies, but gives no evidence. The story shown doesn't make any sense to me. An adult wolf was seen as a feared enemy by early man. A small puppy would be seen as helpless and would inspire empathy. There is research on human response to baby animals. I think that this doc should have said that the theory expressed came from (for example, at least) "The Coevolution of Wolves and Humans" Pierotti and Fogg. (Oxford U. Press) I do not find it credible.
Heart-warming and beautiful, thank you for this documentary ❤
Amazing documentary. Had me in tears at the end.
Amazing documentary! 🏆